What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive site reliability engineering turns out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question teams at about 400 businesses presumably asked themselves in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud. The incident offers a number of insights for […]
Atlassian Expands DevOps Tools Portfolio to Improve Collaboration
Atlassian has added an extensible catalog for tracking software components, dubbed Compass, to its portfolio of DevOps tools along with an Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics cloud service that makes it simpler to aggregate and query data collected from the company’s portfolio of tools. In addition, Atlassian is making its Atlas collaboration framework—formerly known […]
Atlassian Survey Shows Lack of Collaboration in Software Development
A survey of 750 IT and engineering leaders found that while a full 83% of respondents agree that interdepartmental communication is critical for successful software development, only 41% of respondents view cross-collaboration to be a priority. The survey gathered responses from within organizations that generated more than $50 million in annual revenue and was conducted […]
Atlassian Delivers on Forge App Dev Platform Promise
Atlassian this week made available a Forge platform for building applications that complements its existing portfolio. Mike Tria, head of platform engineering for Atlassian, said Forge is intended to provide an application development environment to both IT organizations and third-party partners. It provides developers with access to an integrated Atlassian DevOps toolchain to accelerate testing, […]
Atlassian Extends Open DevOps Ambitions
At an online Atlassian Team 2021 event this week, Atlassian launched a two-pronged effort to provide organizations with more insights into software development workflows constructed using tools from multiple vendors. Suzie Prince, head of product for Atlassian, said an Open DevOps initiative will tighten integration between the Jira project tracking and management tools provided with […]
Atlassian’s Shift to the Cloud Gets Underway
Atlassian today announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a cloud-based service through which organizations can mix and match the company’s various offerings under a single subscription. The company has signaled its intention to shift toward cloud services for months; now, the initial Cloud Enterprise subscription will cover the company’s Jira Software, Confluence and Jira […]
Atlassian Unfurls Bevy of DevOps Updates
Atlassian today made a dozen updates to its DevOps portfolio as part of an effort to better unify workflows spanning disparate tools. Suzie Prince, head of product for Bitbucket at Atlassian, said the latest updates are intended to enable DevOps teams to streamline workflows without requiring everyone in the organization to standardize on the same […]
Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp will provide organizations with a way to manage lightweight processes via an interface that is already commonly used within many organizations. The goal […]
Coronavirus Response: Atlassian Expands Free Software
Atlassian announced today it will make cloud-based versions of Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Desk and Jira Core available for free as part of an effort to assist organizations whose employees are working remotely to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Robert Chatwani, chief marketing officer for Atlassian, said given the current unprecedented situation the […]
Atlassian Adds No-Code Automation Tool to Jira Cloud
Atlassian announced today it has added a no-code tool to enable DevOps teams to make it easier to customize Jira project management software without having to learn how to code. Sean Regan, head of growth for software teams at Atlassian, said Automation for Jira will now become a core part of Jira Cloud that will […]